Ethics and Elections Commission Meeting Materials
Scope and Contents note
Minutes, agendas, and meeting packets of the Fair Campaign Practices Commission, the Board of Ethics, and the Ethics and Elections Commission. Meeting packets contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, Commission decisions, and clippings. Meeting materials for the Fair Campaign Practices Commission and the Board of Ethics are filed together and contain some of the same material. Minutes exist for meetings held between 1977-1991, 1998, and 2001. Files for meetings held in 2000-2002 contain the notes of Carolyn Van Noy, Executive Director of the Ethics and Elections Commission. Files for meetings in 1973-1980 may contain transcripts from special meetings.
Dates
- Creation: 1973-2009
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Ethics And Elections Commission (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
TThe Board of Ethics was established in 1971 to promote ethical behavior by City officials and employees, to provide advisory opinions regarding conflicts of interest, and to conduct hearings regarding violations of the Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics sets standards of conduct for City officials and employees in carrying out City business. The members of the Board of Ethics also served as the Fair Campaign Practices Commission, which heard cases of campaign violations, although the two entities maintained separate offices and staff. In 1991 the two entities were consolidated into the independent Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission. The Commission enforces campaign practices legislation, including financial disclosure requirements, and develops and enforces ethical standards for city officials and employees.
Full Extent
11.2 Cubic Feet (28 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Minutes, agendas, and meeting packets of the Fair Campaign Practices Commission, the Board of Ethics, and the Ethics and Elections Commission.
Subject
- Seattle (Wash.). Board of Ethics (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Ethics And Elections Commission (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Fair Campaign Practices Commission (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission Meeting Materials 1973-2002
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Megan O'Shea
- Date
- ĂĹ 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- EAD Location
- http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv98068
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository